Anouk Lamé and Sarah Scott Ford start as postdoctoral researchers on ANCHOR project
Anouk Lamé and Sarah Scott Ford joined the ANCHOR project as postdoctoral researchers on 1 March 2025. Based at MOBILE, the ANCHOR project explores how interpretive shifts in international courts are accepted or resisted in the day-to-day work of domestic legal systems. It uses computational legal methods to track the domestic reception of international rulings in the case law of the Danish Refugee Appeals Board (Flytningenævnet) over a period of more than twenty years (2002-2025). The project will contribute to developing new empirical evidence on the concrete domestic translation of international law and on the role of courts in migration policy. In addition, the ANCHOR project will develop methodological tools to track the reception of international law in everyday domestic judicial practices.
The ANCHOR project, short for “Anchoring International Law’s Dynamism: Tracing Denmark’s Reception of International Rulings”, is led by Associate Professor Nora Stappert and is funded by an Inge Lehmann grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. As part of the project team, Sarah, Anouk and Nora are joined by Sophie Klitgaard Walker, a scholarship student at MOBILE working on detecting legal references in the Danish Refugee Appeals Board dataset and focusing on how practices at the RAB has changed over time.
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